英语词汇“dogie”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

dogie

释义

dogie, dogy U.S.|ˈdəʊgɪ|
[Of obscure origin.]
A motherless, neglected, or undernourished calf on a cattle range. Also attrib.
[1888Cent. Mag. Oct. (Farmer), They were mostly Texan doughies—a name I have never seen written, it applies to young immigrant cattle.]1892Outing (U.S.) Feb. 358 A queer, pot-bellied little dogy (a calf prematurely weaned by the death of its mother and developed into a runt).1903A. Adams Log of Cowboy vii. 86 Before you could say Jack Robinson our dogies..were running in half a dozen different directions.1911H. Quick Yellowstone Nights v. 124 The Old Man..was a one-lunger when this dogie enterprise started.1920J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 130 A dogie calf that had got into the herd.Ibid. 151 It took us just exactly three months and twenty days to drive a herd of southern ‘dogies’ from Red River.1962E. B. Atwood Regional Vocab. Texas 56 For a calf, particularly a ‘range’ calf, unaccompanied by a parent, the usual Texas term is dogie... A dogie, according to various informants is ‘small’, ‘undernourished’..or of ‘inferior breed’.

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